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Could someone with the proper scientific credentials please stand up and tell us whether Aubrey de Grey’s claim that we can defeat agi...
In one of the most bizarre science breakthroughs in recent memory, British and South African doctors have reported three cases of semi-comat...
Are fossil records a thing of the past? Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson (TED2005) thinks they may be. In Sunday’s New York Times,...
At TED2006, Alan Russell posed a provocative question; “If newts can regenerate a lost limb, why can’t we?” For Russell, d...
At TED2006, Robert Wright proposed that humans are still evolving, culturally and morally — progress that picks up where genetic evolu...
At TED2005 and TEDGlobal, genomics pioneer Craig Venter mentioned — casually, as always — his desire to create a fully synthetic...
Bjorn Lomborg publishes a new essay, “The Relative Unimportance of Global Warming.”
Jared Diamond headlines an evening at the LA Natural History Museum
Two highly anticipated museum exhibits open this weekend: Darwin in New York, and Masters of American Comics in LA.